Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-01-04
DAILY Posi- NTELlIGEHcER


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wishin ne past few weeks hswl hAs
eone 40 frsm > portion 81 shs pssas 81
IL Unltsa STATS against tie pueasaA-
ssou IL she alshy dataaIao Of ahs Campbdai
divorces trial 81 lessgFaphsd fEsm Len
don. TsIs nssisasbis shat this profess
oame ainsss easirsly fFsfa enaail papsEa.
which DID nDt rscsive shs teieGrAphis
sspnEt and eeuEd 500 bare rad foE 4 e
tkey had. sud which couid thsrsfoEs
vexv ven Afford 70 SESAME "A attitude
Of virsnsas indignation - thia rscslsss
corruption Of publie morals. 30 peg
alsaens has bsan gbe stacks m8da HpSn
she Associated Press for rsportiHg shs
psoeeedinea thas shs pubiie began %
bsIisse Il haA dons very bsd thing
and that they themselves wsrs very
mach 10 blame for having read sueh
matter.
Bat. ns q rustieF Of fses, was The Pub
Ileaason Of such details wrong! could
It do na possible goOds Was iaa loser
ing Of shs rtpatatios Of The leading
iournals Of the s0anaEy 70 tue issel Of
shat Of the PsEfce Gazsttsf 30 the critics
would have O. bslsexe. They cannet
dwell TOO much upon the iDiaFy 70 youth
and innseenos which The psgusal Of sneh
matter entails.
Ismsy readily Be admitted that The
proceedings Of The trial we're searosly
astsd for ehiIdren's reading. bet news
papers almost invariably contsin soaae
matter that Il is not btsi for . child 10
read, and prudent parents Usually taxa
esod care shas ehildFea de- not read
II. Tbs newspaper Is prepared 10
suit the tastes and desires Of people
Who have reached the age Of tboneht,
nnd Il Ia NOS possible 10 snake e alto
esther suitable foE children.
The detaiIs Of the sronbles Of the
Camp5eIl family, however, we're soarcely
suoh as wonId inciie stther the ysuih or
the adnls 70 crime. From beginning
70 end il was q story Of misery's story
Of sin and iis dreadful retFibusion.
Thars vas nothing about II which would
make sin appear abrasive. ThsEs wvs
nothing whish wenld allure innocence
into she vortex. IL was 9 story Of
ruined lives, Of blasted hopes, Of misery,
OF suffering infinite. II tsld, a. only
such cages frem real life can tell. the
che terror and The awfainess Of sin. II
soId how swift the resEibution and how
bitter the sorrow. Il vas single state
ment Of ahe wreck Of two lives and Of
The causes whieh led 10 that wreck. In
every line, In every word, II wArned the
reader Of The misery Of transgrssaion-
The solicitation Of such q narrative.
we're IL wholly fiction. woald be entirely
wrong; but lls publication, when the
reader would know that II WAS 8 state
msnt ef actual fact, story from life,
eeuveyed lesson which coald scarcely
b. nnhsedsa. It's qualification vas q
duty which conscientious ioarnal
should not hesitate to perform.
Bat this ia not ell. Lord and Lady
Campbell were Representatives Of an
aEistoaraey about which the romance OF
past sess has east glamour which
truth aud common sense have tven vet
failed 10 pierce. The members OF that
nobility deem themselves good and
great because their ancestors we're good
and great. Through the half super.
ailtious awe in whieh they are held. they
are abba 10 assume to be bsttsr and
pursr than thcse By whom they are sur
Eouaded. They command a degree OF
homage 10 which neither their eharac.
tiers nor their abilities entitle them.
They live BY virtas Of deeds done long
ago, and the power BY which they exact
tribute is borrowed from the past.
Nothing could do more 10 remove the
glamour around the nobility than the
publication Of just such stories e. that
IT she lives and loFea Of Lord and Lady
Oamptsil. NsthinR could do more TO
awaken the people 20 che fact that they
pay reverence. NOT 10 those whe deserve
reverence, bat 10 the lowest Of the low.
Such things tsaoh the people that mobiles
are not always noble, that a Lord may
BE- sooundrsl. and thai q Lady IL not
always q lady.
When shs innate rottenness. the in
grained corruption Of q false system
appears. u Is net well THAI il be con
oealed. Il should be exposed 90 thai all
may see u aud understand its lesson.
Whea those vhO claim The respect and
honor af men are worthy OF neither. IL
h veil thai the fact be known. TIE no
bilisy would eontihas 10 lord IL over the
peopla forever were iss eoEruptions al
ways carefully concealed. Il is only BY
allowing the world 10 see the aysieuo 40
Il IL. that the great reform will be 90
complished. saoh publications shake
The nobility and royalty to their very
foundations. some day Ny Lord and
My Lady, His Majesty ana Her Majesty.
viii come tambllng down together, and
the people vill rule. Coavinos the PEG.
pie that Tia Institutions which shey
have 20 long respected are unworthy Of
respect. Tell them. the truth. Iei
them see the inner life OF My Lord and
by IsAay, aRd they will sooa enough re-
alise what poot creatures they arr. Ne
reform was eveF accomplished by ~.
veaiiag oaly the beautiful and conceal
ipg the hideeas people are noe incitetl
30 overthrow the wF0ag by the rscita.
tion Of fairy talea
TheFe may be some whs read % the
Campbell trial uithoal hssding the lee
seu, bat there we're certainly many wha
did heed t. There are always evils esnss
necsed with saeA a publication. bas
there are ksnslts, zoe. ana In shis case
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